Craig Claiborne Quotes

We eat to live.

I eat to survive, you know?

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.

I'm a pretty hefty eater.

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

Food is really important to me.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

I'm not much of an eater.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

The only meal I have is dinner.

I love to eat. I'm not the biggest guy, but I love to eat.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I like to eat.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

I don't eat a lot. I think we overeat.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

All things require skill but an appetite.